Re: [orca-list] Orca and *nix distros

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com> wrote:
> I'll shamelessly plug Vinux, though I know there is much work done in
> other distros.  Open Solaris, in particular, benefits from the long
> efforts of Sun's old accessibility effort, and Joanie, the Orca lead,
> develops in Open Solaris.  

Recently switched to Ubuntu, I think.

The future of OpenSolaris remains uncertain - unlike the BSD's, the community
hasn't yet rewritten all of the binary-only, closed-source components to make
it truly free/open-source, and it isn't clear what direction Oracle will take
with it.